Sentences with phrase «ordinary citizens process»

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But beyond electoral processes, it is just as vital to the health of a democracy that ordinary citizens are meaningfully involved in the discourse concerning issues affecting their lives and country.

A democratic process in which political positions are seen purely as a matter of public service with a responsibility to try and meet the aspirations of the ordinary citizens is likely to engender electoral integrity and healthy participatory government.

He explained the challenges of collecting and processing data, the legal fights along the way and the goal of empowering ordinary citizens with access to public information.

I worked for Desirs d'Avenir who facilitated a similar manifesto process out to party members, progressive activists and ordinary citizens.

A century ago, ordinary citizens had little say in the process of choosing each party's presidential candidate; choosing the candidate was more of a backroom process, carried out by party leaders and political insiders.

The best way to do this, in my view, is to support the educational opportunities of Hispanic, African - American, Asian, Muslim, of racial and ethnic minority children and youth and low income students and to systematically look for ways to help these our children and youth develop agency, and understanding of the political process and of the many opportunities to make democracy work in the acts of ordinary citizens, to discover and master the codes of political participation and power, to develop political efficacy.

Unless you are a government agent who must go through security clearance and background checks, a loan application is probably the most detailed information - gathering process that you will encounter as an ordinary citizen.

But the rights of ordinary citizens have always been much on Ward's mind - and never more so than in the last year, when he personally went through the process of becoming a United States citizen.

We have reached the conclusion that the basis most likely to find a wide degree of acceptance, and one that is in itself a matter calling for urgent attention, is a constitutional Bill of Rights — a Bill that would guarantee the fundamental freedoms of the citizen from interference, whether federal or provincial, and that would have a high degree of permanence in that neither Parliament nor the Legislatures would be able to modify its terms by the ordinary legislative process.